Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club (commonly referred to as AS Monaco or simply Monaco) is a French-registered Monaco-based football club. The club was founded in 1924 and plays in Ligue 1, the top tier of French football. The team plays its home matches at the Stade Louis II in Fontvieille. Monaco is managed by Leonardo Jardim and is captained by Jérémy Toulalan.

Though based in Monaco, the club is regarded as a French club, as the club plays in the French football league system, and because the principality of Monaco is not a member of UEFA. Monaco is one of the most successful clubs in France, having won seven league titles and five Coupe de France trophies. The club has also regularly competed in European football having been runners-up in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1992 and the UEFA Champions League in 2004.

The club's traditional colours are red and white, and the club is known as Les Rouges et Blancs (The Red and White). Monaco is also a member of the European Club Association. In December 2011, two-thirds of the club was sold to an investment group led by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev. With Rybolovlev's financial backing, the club quickly returned to Ligue 1.

Team Members

Pelé

Jorge

Jemerson

Jean-Eudes Aholou

Loïc Badiashile

Antonio Barreca

Diego Benaglio

Cesc Fabregas

Radamel Falcao

Willem Geubbels

Kamil Glik

Aleksandr Golovin

Samuel Grandsir

Stevan Jovetic

Rony Lopes

Georges-Kevin Nko

Jordi Mboula

Kévin N'Doram

Pietro Pellegri

Ronaël Pierre-Ga

Andrea Raggi

Julien Serrano

Djibril Sidibe

Adrien Silva

Danijel Subasic

Seydou Sy

Youri Tielemans

Adama Traore

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Stadium or HomeThe Stade Louis II (French pronunciation) is a stadium located in the Fontvieille district of Monaco. It serves primarily as a venue for football, being the home of AS Monaco and the Monaco national football team. From 1998-2012 this was the location of the annual UEFA Super Cup match. It is also used for track and field, where it formerly hosted the IAAF World Athletics Final (though certain events, such as the hammer, had to be held elsewhere, due to the stadium's relatively small capacity). On 29 July 2008, Yelena Isinbayeva set the women's pole vault world record of 5.04 metres at the ground.

The original Stade Louis II was opened in 1939 as the home of AS Monaco. The new stadium was built in the early 1980s, close to the site of the old stadium on land reclaimed from the sea, opening fully in 1985. It presently has a capacity of approximately 18,500 all seated, which is quite large relative to the population of Monaco (about 36,371); it can seat almost two-thirds of the country's population, a feat no other stadium can boast. The vast majority of the stadium's facilities are located underground, with a large car park directly under the pitch (something that has caused some degree of criticism from managers of AS Monaco's opponents in the past over the state of the pitch).

The stadium is named after Louis II, Prince of Monaco, who was the Sovereign Prince of Monaco when the original stadium was built. It features prominently in the early versions of Pro Evolution Soccer and Adidas Power Soccer 98.

On 1 July 2011, The Eagles played at the ground at the wedding of Prince Albert II to Charlene Wittstock.